mainly macro

It is always interesting to compare the Fed, ECB and Bank of England. For both the Fed and ECB it has been quite a year for innovation. At t...

In one area macroeconomic policy in the UK is well ahead of the US or the Eurozone: the use of fiscal rules. The US seems to prefer cliffs...

This post starts off talking about something rather parochial, but it then moves to a wider point about decision making in a particular type...

1) As the snow that I can see outside my window as I write this testifies, the Chancellor’s Autumn statement is misnamed - but it does have ...

The following is written in the UK context, but the proposal I make would work in the US and the Eurozone as well. Wednesday will be Autum...

There is a great deal of discussion about the appropriate goals for monetary policy. Should it just be targeting inflation, or should centr...

For teachers and students of economics Noah Smith has a depressing look at the reaction of some graduate students to the macro they are tau...